Evening Performances
6:00–7:30 pm
Salem String Quartet
Classical
Ashley Offret of the Salem String Quartet
Directed by Ashley Offret, the Salem String Quartet will be performing Latin influenced Classical selections. In addition to performing with many local professional orchestras, Ms. Offret is also the Strings Director at the Marblehead/Salem Schools of Music.
Steven Spungin
Flamenco Guitar
A passion for over 20 years, Steven Spungin continues to explore and evolve the ancient art of flamenco guitar. Drawing on his extensive repertoire and lightning fast skills, Spungin is able to spin familiar pop music melodies into magical journeys of sound. Mr. Spungin is also the founder of the Marblehead/Salem Schools of Music.
8:00–10:30 pm
Salem Theatre Company
Comedic Theatre Performances
All in the Timing
A program of comic shorts by David Ives
Join is for an evening of Theatre and Comedy with the winner of the John Gassner Playwriting Award. This critically acclaimed, award-winning evening of comedies combines wit, intellect, satire and just plain fun. So sit back, have a laugh and enjoy….!
The Stories: Sure Thing is a classic of contemporary comedy: Two people meet in a cafe and find their way through a conversational minefield as an offstage bell interrupts their false starts, gaffes, and faux pas on the way to falling in love
Words, Words, Words recalls the philosophical adage that three monkeys typing into infinity will sooner or later produce HAMLET and asks: What would monkeys talk about at their typewriters?
The Universal Language brings together Dawn, a young woman with a stutter, and Don, the creator and teacher of Unamunda, a wild comic language. Their lesson sends them off into a dazzling display of hysterical verbal pyrotechnics—and, of course, true love.
Philip Glass Buys a Loaf of Bread is a parodic musical vignette in trademark Glassian style, with the celebrated composer having a moment of existential crisis in a bakery.
The Philadelphia presents a young man in a restaurant who has fallen into "a Philadelphia," a Twilight Zone-like state in which he cannot get anything he asks for.
His only way out of the dilemma? To ask for the opposite of what he wants.
Variations on the Death of Trotsky shows us the Russian revolutionary on the day of his demise, desperately trying to cope with the mountain-climber's axe he's discovered in his head.
Director Steve Rotolo received a Master of Fine Arts from Louisiana State University in 1993 where he worked with John Dennis (former Artistic Director for the Resident Ensemble, Mark Taper Forum, L.A.) and Barry Kyle (Honorary Associate Director, Royal Shakespeare Company). He continued his studies in directing under Prof. James Spruill at Boston University's School for the Arts.
Steve made his directorial debut with LeRoi Jones' Dutchman running his own company, Molasses Tank Productions. Locally, he was critically acclaimed for his productions of The Conquest of the South Pole, by Manfred Karge; Native Speech, by Eric Overmyer; Almost Asleep, by Julie Hebert; Vanek One Acts, by Vaclav Havel; Acts of Futility, six one acts by Samuel Beckett; and Not Ionesco, a festival of one acts by Eugene Ionesco.
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